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Why are people against gun rights? (besides shootings) (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hope this isn't out of context, also I don't want to "own the libs" or something here, I'm actually interested.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So are my children less valuable than other kids?

Of course that's not what I mean.

But everything you describe are just bandaid solutions that won't solve the problem.

Getting guns, all guns, out of the hands of citizens will help reduce suicides, protect domestic violence victims, and effectively eliminate the deaths resulting from misuse of firearms because they won't have them in the first place.

The exceptions should be certain hunting rifles only if you meet extremely stringent criteria and remain limited to a certain number of round purchases per year. Those requirements could very easily include stipulations about dangerous wildlife in your area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Getting guns, all guns, out of the hands of citizens

I don't think this is

realistic
necessary
desirable

There are about 50k deaths a year due to guns. That is a lot and we should try to prevent as many as we can. But consider this. There are about 300 million guns legally owned. That's 0.0167% of guns involved in a death.

Interesting this isnt that different than car statistics ~40k deaths with 260 million cars owned.

Now no cars without special dispensation doesn't sound like the worst thing to me, but it also doesn't sound realistic or all that great without like transporter technology.